What to say other than that I read Syria wrong or, worse – though it’s too early to call – read the Axis of Resistance wrong. In my last post but one I acknowledged the terrible danger for that long … Read More »
It’s easy to lose touch – amid the cerebral thrill of the chase attendant on applying our powers of reason to uncover the drivers and drift of this sorry planet as a dying hence triply dangerous US empire thrashes out … Read More »
The Telegraph, December 3 2024 There’s truth to the above but that doesn’t mean the efforts are genuine. [HTS leader] Joulani has the backing of powerful interests to depose Assad and become Emir of Syria, but one able to be … Read More »
Jihadists about to enter Aleppo, November 29 The above shows Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham – a rebranding of al-Qaeda cut-out, Jabhat al-Nusra – on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, five days ago. That’s almost twelve years to the day … Read More »
A few months ago a reader asked a rhetorical question. Why, she demanded, should we trust those who can’t call a genocide a genocide on anything at all? I’ve since used it a number of times, most recently when someone … Read More »
Friday morning I awaken to peel away the suction blinds on two of the van windows. In minutes I’m dressed and wellied up to walk the two hundred metres to where shapely Milton Ferry Bridge, on the southwest edge of … Read More »
In US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2, I wrote: As in Afghanistan, 9/11 legitimated – as did the WMD lie and risible notion of Saddam in bed with Al Qaeda – what Nuremburg called “the supreme crime” of … Read More »
These are disturbing times for the even partially awake. To monitor and as best we can draw attention to the criminality of those who, beneath a thinning veneer of ‘democracy’, rule the Western world may lead us into the realms … Read More »
Simplicius the Thinker opens his post today with this: Swell of ‘WWIII’ Red Herrings Aims to Drown Out Mounting Russian Success An outrageous deluge of exaggerated WWIII propaganda has hit the networks. Every pundit is tearing their hair out at … Read More »
Moscow Times, November 21st In the sole footnote to my post yesterday, Ukraine and the escalation ladder, I wrote: Today, both Caitlin Johnstone and Simplicius the Thinker – she with her characteristic forthrightness of tone, he more nuanced – point to Trump’s … Read More »